US: Muslim Says He Was Abducted By U.S.by Armen Keteyian and Phil Hirschkorn., CBS NewsNovember 28th, 2006Khaled El-Masri says he is not after money but answers about why he spent five months in harsh captivity as a prisoner in the war on terrorism.

IRAQ: Pentagon Audit Clears Propaganda Effortby Mark Mazzetti, New York TimesOctober 20th, 2006An American military propaganda campaign that planted favorable news articles in the Iraqi news media did not violate laws or Pentagon regulations, but it was not properly supervised by military officials in Baghdad, an audit by the Pentagon Inspector General has concluded.

IRAQ: Corporate Torture in Iraqby
Ali Eteraz, Counter PunchOctober 11th, 2006What remains under-reported and under-appreciated is the fact that this war has afforded a vast collection of corporations to reap the benefits of lucrative government contracts. A number of such companies are involved in supervising, maintaining, and providing support for the numerous prisons in Iraq in the areas of interrogation, interpretation, and translation.

IRAQ: Firm That Paid Iraq Papers Gets New Dealby Rebecca Santana, Associated Press September 27th, 2006A public relations company that participated in a controversial U.S. military program that paid Iraqi newspapers for stories favorable to coalition forces has been awarded another multimillion-dollar media contract with American forces in Iraq.

US: Border Security Contract Goes To Boeing Reuters September 22nd, 2006Boeing Co. has been chosen to build a "virtual fence" using sensors and cameras along the U.S. border with Mexico and Canada to help control illegal immigration in a contract projected to be worth up to $2 billion.

US: Spy Agencies Outsourcing to Fill Key Jobs
by Greg Miller, The Los Angeles TimesSeptember 17th, 2006At the National Counterterrorism Center — the agency created two years ago to prevent another attack like Sept. 11 — more than half of the employees are not U.S. government analysts or terrorism experts. Instead, they are outside contractors.

US: Pentagon Spends Billions to Outsource Tortureby Joshua Holland, AlternetSeptember 14th, 2006The thousands of mercenary security contractors employed in the Bush administration's "War on Terror" are billed to American taxpayers, but they've handed Osama Bin Laden his greatest victories -- public relations coups that have transformed him from just another face in a crowd of radical clerics to a hero of millions in the global South (posters of Bin Laden have been spotted in largely Catholic Latin America during protests against George W. Bush).

Intelligence in Iraq: L-3 Supplies Spy Supportby Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatchAugust 9th, 2006L-3 Communications, a little-known but gigantic military contractor, provides 300 contract intelligence experts to the Pentagon in Iraq to support operations ranging from interrogation to media analysis. The secretive $426.5 million operation, which is run out of Virginia, may be a recipe for disaster, say critics.
Also see related story, A Translator's Tale, by Pratap Chatterjee.

A Translator's Taleby Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatchAugust 9th, 2006Goran Habbeb was shot and left for dead by gunmen in Iraq for helping troops in counter-intelligence tasks. He worked for Titan, a military contractor, who supply translators to the military under a profitable multi-billion dollar contract. Almost 200 of their workers have been killed, the highest by far of any contractor in Iraq.

US: AS US Falter in Iraq, China Gains by Tom Plate , The Seattle Times August 23rd, 2005It looks as if history will judge Mahathir to have been the wiser of the two owls. The U.S. military is enmeshed in a vicious insurgency and there may be no way out — except, in fact, to get out, outright.

US: Lockheed Martin Is Hired to Bolster Transit Security in N.Y.by Sewell Chan and Shadi Rahimi, The New York TimesAugust 23rd, 2005A new world of transit security in New York City began to take form this morning, as officials disclosed plans to saturate the transit system with 1,000 video cameras, 3,000 motion detectors and a wide array of sophisticated gadgets, all intended to buffer the city's subways, bridges and tunnels from a terror attack.

An Interrogator Speaks Outby Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatchMarch 7th, 2005A former military interrogator talks about what went wrong at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

Intelligence, Inc.by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatchMarch 7th, 2005US military interrogators -- who will work at sites ranging from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay -- must first receive training at one obscure military fort in Southern Arizona. Today, that training has been taken over by private contractors working for profit.
ALSO: An Interrogator Speaks Out

Information Warriorsby Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatchAugust 4th, 2004Rendon Group Wins Hearts and Minds in Business, Politics and War
The Rendon Group is a consulting firm whose services range from creating "a favorable environment before privatization begins" to helping justify war. Rick Rendon, a founding partner talks to CorpWatch about his latest project, "Empowering Peace."

USA: Spying for Fun and Profitby Kari Lydersen, AlternetMay 28th, 2003Survelliance technologies raise serious questions about invasions of privacy and violations of civil liberties. They also cost a lot of money. Taxpayers fund this massively beefed up security. Private corporations and even individuals are also paying large amounts to boost their own security procedures in light of the war on terrorism. Naturally, someone is also profiting off this boom.